Even after ten years of compiling The Way We Were, I continue to be fascinated by the history of the Pontiac.
The fact that The Equity has been chronicling life here for 139 years now, makes it an extraordinary source of information about our ancestors and their way of life. Roaming through the pages of the newspaper back to its origins in 1883 can feel like being transported through time, and we are thrilled that so many readers are enjoying the voyage along with us.
Sometimes, someone will bring in an . . .
old picture for us to publish in the paper, maybe of a hockey team or a graduating class, a historic building or community event that gives us a glimpse into life in bygone years.
We want to do more of that. If you have an old picture you think The Equity’s readers might be interested in seeing, or if you are looking for help identifying some mystery faces in that old family photo you found in the attic, we’d love to hear from you.
Just drop your historic photos off at The Equity office and we’ll publish whatever we can in a new feature of the paper we’re calling Moments in Time.
To start things off here is a photo (circa 1939/1940) submitted by Sharon Senack of her great-grandmother, Elizabeth Kluke Yereck, raking hay with one of her daughters on their homestead, a small family farm nestled in the Polish Hills outside Otter Lake, Quebec. According to Sharon, Elizabeth was the eldest of four daughters born to the great Joe Kluke, the original settler of the Polish Hills after the Franco-Prussian War of 1871, and his wife, Elizabeth Dorzyk.
The farm was part of Elizabeth’s dowry upon her marriage to August Yereck in 1898, with whom she raised two sons and five daughters. Known as the August Yereck farm, it was one of about a dozen farms that dotted the Hills in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The last working farm was that of Joe Yereck, the eldest son of August and Elizabeth Yereck.
If anyone has any more information on this photo, please send it along to me at bonnie@theequity.ca.
